"For more than a year, we've been working to meet the goals of reducing the growth of health-care costs, improving quality and efficiency and expanding coverage. There are a tremendous number of complicated issues that go into reform and the public option is certainly one of them. I included a public option in the health reform blueprint I released nearly one year ago, and continue to support any provision, including a public option, that will ensure choice and competition and get the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate." —Max Baucus today
Utterly shameless. The singularly insufferable lawmaker who nearly killed the public option is now making it seem like the public option was his idea all along. Unbelievable.